A low pressure area took a fairly classic path from the northeast Gulf to off the North Carolina coast between the afternoon of the 25th and the morning of the 26th. However, the track of the low was a little further south and east than needed to bring optimal snowfall to the region. Snowfall amounts were heaviest across the southern counties of the forecast area and especially across the North Carolina counties. Snowfall amounts ranged from 4.0 to 8.0 inches across northwest and north central North Carolina, to 3.0 to 6.0 inches across southwest Virginia and Southside Virginia, mostly east of the Blue Ridge, to 2.0 to 3.0 inches further north across southeast West Virginia and toward the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The heaviest snow was nearly all south of U.S. 460 across the forecast area.
Here are the snowfall amounts reported from the North Carolina counties within the Blacksburg, Virginia National Weather Service Forecast Office area:
Alleghany County - 7.0 inches at Sparta to 6.0 inches at Ennice,|Ashe County - 8.0 inches at Glendale Springs to 4.8 inches at West Jefferson,|Caswell County - 7.2 inches at Cherry Grove to 5.0 inches at Providence,|Rockingham County - 8.0 inches at Ruffin to 4.0 inches at Eden,|Stokes County - 6.3 inches at Francisco to 4.0 inches at King,|Surry County - 8.0 inches at Ararat to 5.0 inches 2S of Dobson,|Watauga County - 8.0 inches near Aho to 4.5 inches 2W of Boone,|Wilkes County - 7.0 inches 2N of Maple Springs to 3.0 inches 5SE of Windy Gap,|Yadkin County - 6.0 inches at East Bend.